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1000 Kwacha Leopard
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#147 |
| Obverse description | Diademed effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and set with a tiara, occupying the central field. The date 2000 is divided by the portrait, with '20' to the left and '00' to the right. The Zambian national coat of arms is depicted in low relief below the bust. The circular legend 'BANK OF ZAMBIA' arcs along the upper periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF ZAMBIA 20 00 |
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Zambia's wildlife coin program of the late 1990s and early 2000s was produced primarily for the collector export market — these pieces saw no meaningful domestic circulation, and the Bank of Zambia used the series as a foreign currency earner rather than a monetary instrument. The .859 fineness is deliberately non-standard, a cost-reducing measure common among third-party-minted commemoratives of this period where the issuing authority had limited control over production specifications.